Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-08
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containing copyright edition f the revised
version of the Scriptures, who was sent TO
| WOlseley. South Australia, hasten seized an"
sent to the CO!ieetorof Customlto be nelo W
| til it is decided whe' her they lIrlnge on the
! English copyright act.
The old Christian (Campbellte) church in
Nashville, Tenn, built siXty-si years ago. Is
| to be torn down. The last sermon has been
preached in II by the venerable Elder PhlllP
| =. Fail, VINO ofliciated at its delegation. lie Is
! 50 years old, naIvc of Engian, and Is sClll
active In ministerial WORK.
TIE Sultan of Morocco ha'ing reented
somewhat IN his hostility 10 tosaccO, the de-
linuuents have not been fogga through the
| streets and suuU is now toiehted. But no
| Moors now seen smoking lobacco, ana
| letters received from Mazagan' relate that
man who persisted in smoking mad his lips
cut oil. No ody in Morocco smokes now.
! WALLINGFORD, CONN, can boat of fe-
| male resident now IS years of ae. who has
reared a family OF fifteen childen and had
six husbands, The lady having Seen BRIDE
! three times since her siXtieth birthday. She
now iives alone ON The Sou II Iiains. having
| provided herself with a coffin and complete
| burial outfit which is kept il the house ready
! for use.
! ACCORDING 70 the Roanoke 4. Co. News, In
case tried a few days ago that vicinity
! the jury could not agree, sanding II 20 l.
The ore who held out agant the others was
a co ored pre- cher From words spoken In
the jury room this preacher fearing mat, pc
| ing exempt from jury duE as Il minister OF
the gospel, he would not get any per diem II
| the fact became known, quickly changed his
| position and agreed with The eleven.
"GEORGE ". CABLE owns house on Para
disc road. in Northampton, Mass. ;" says the
Boston Transcript. Here he lives and
| labors aud enjoys domestic life with an affec-
tomato, sensible wife and six children, the
last boy. Besides these, he enjoys as
| neighbors his mother, two sisters, some
nleces, and nephew (the latter gifted with
! rare artistic talent), who have come from
| New Orleans to be near him. The sisters
! support themselves by keeping boarders. Mr..
| Cable thinks OF returning South this summer"
If one particle Of mass of dynamite is ex-
ploded the explosion of the rest of the mass is
| ordinarily supposed to be instantaneous, but
1t is not quite 50. If a o5 of dynamite was
| housed in a continuous train of four miles ii
| would take q second for it all to explode.
| Even this IS scarcely an appreclable length OF
| time; bus If a continuous tram of dynamite
| were poured over the ground between san
| Francisco and New YORK City it would take d
| quarter Of an hour for the explosion 10 reach
| from one point to the other. A man, there
| lore. lght SIT on the end OF the tram OF pow
| der IN New u rk City and be in perfect safety
tor fifteen minutes after the san Francisco
end of the train had begun to explode.
THE attempt to put an end to betting at the
races in France has received surprised Eng
lish comment. The Pail Mall Gazette says,
in speaking of the state of sporting society in
England: with us there is betting in
almost every class of sports. In some cases
If there were no bets there would be no sport.
The Prince of Wales, Lord Harrington, the
Duke OF Westm nster. Lord RoseUery, the
Duke of Portland, Lord Randolph Churchill,
Sir Charles Russel-the list might be eX
a
and betting men. Our own authorities may
crush The picturesque scoundres who are to
be seen on our race courses. but the eviathan
Will go on forever, fJstered by statesmen and
admired and envied by millions"
PATTI is quoted by Clara Brinkerhoff lin
The Voice. as having said of herself: ~
know, although they call me queen of song.
it is not because l am the greatest singer, but
because there are many gifts in the same
person In me. l am not beautiful but pass
for pretty, chats one; am tOlerably graceful,
that's two: am good dresser. that's three !:
| have way with me that is piquant, that's
four; like my public, and that's five, for my
public like me because l like them, and never
tire of pleasing them; / have a good voice.
that's SIN: | know how to sing very Well-my
way-that's seven; l always know my music,
that gives comfort TO the audience and NAV
count eight; act fairly well the roles
sing, that's nine. What more could one want
In slngerF'
THE form of drama called opera was in
vented about 200 years ago. 1t reached its
zenith of popularity during the first half OF
the present century, but during the last TWEEN
ty or thirty years il seems 10 have declined in
favor, if we may judge BIZ the failure of those
managers who have devoted them Ives to its
support. Paris. London and New York have
recently left opera more or less tout in the
cold Sunlry reasons have been given for
this condition of affairs, but no one contends
that II is not so. This kind of entertainment
has never been thoroughly popular, because
it is of foreign extraction it is exotic, and
found no root in the heart of the people. 1t
has been sustained by government aid or by
private subscription. 1t has never been like
the drama, self-supporting,
"FATHER BECK. the head of the Jesuits.
who has just died at the age of 80. was a deli
cate looking man." says the London Graphic.
whose face plainly showed that he fully car
ried out the austerlties enjoined by his order
He wasvof middle height, with regular feat
ure5 and an amable expression of counte-
nance. HIS forehead was high and broad
surrounding small piercing eyes. his nose
long and aqulilne, his cheek bones were
prominent, while his thin lips showed decis-
ION and energy. SO powerful in life, the gem
erals of the Jesuit receive no more honors in
death than the humDlest of their brethren.
and Father BeckX viii lie in the company's
vault in Rome, in the simplest of Iombs
among other Jesuits merely an iron plate.
inscribed with HIS initials, being fixed on the
grave.
1T was once my fortune, says Maurice
Thompson, to see young man take an axe
in his hand and walk across 200 yards Of open
ground under the fire of 400 dismounted room
ers, and deliberately cut down telegraph
pole. While he was chopping away at the
Tough cedar wood ] could plainly see the
splinters whirllng away from the pole from
top to bottom, as the whizzing bullets, aimed
at HIM, crashed through IT or scanned its sides
with ragged scars. Near by STOOD q brick
chimney, where a house had burned down: a
underground shot struck the pile, and IT
went tumbllng TO earth, sca tering its bricks
about, some Of them striking the young SOL
dier's leg. He did not waver. AS regular as
the beat Of pendulum was the swing of that
AK, ana when the pole Tell friends and foes
the young man as he deliberately shouldered
his AK and returned to his place IN his com
mand.
THE manuscripts received are one of the
most interesting features of a magazine, but
they lose most OF this interest when one has
read them by the thousands during wear. as
does the editor Of Harper's. From January.
1856. TO January, 1887. there were received
l2,02l manuscripts by the Harpers Intended
Tor their monthly alone. Fully one half of
these were poems, ana the greater portion of
the balance were stories. short and serial
Each one Of this vast number was read and
passed upon by Mr.. Alden, the editor and
hundreds read for second time where a
doubt existed as to their availability. The
percentage declined, If given. would lie most
Encouraging TO Younger autlorg. Tho rana